Saturday, November 29, 2014

Houghton Turkey Sprint: new map!

Today was an excellent day for O'. Snow covered the Houghton landfill and HBOC held a post Turkey Sprint race. No snow fell on us, but it was cold.

Volunteers: Ing and Will (checkpoints), Gunta (kids), Girts (drinks), Rick and Zarina (food).
Courses: Peteris
RG: Jan

Here is the new map. Ask me for PDF/OCAD version.

You can see splits.
Or you can see route gadget.

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Maps and georeferencing

For a while I have been suggesting that maps geo-referenced should have UTM projection and WGS84 datum. Now I have additional data available: NAD83 should be the datum of choice, with the reason being that LASTOOLS do not approve of WGS84, but they do recognize NAD83...